E-letter: Briefs

Elon Musk tweeted a simulation of what a crewed flight to the International Space Station on SpaceX’s Dragon will look like, forecasting a crewed flight during 2020.  “Crew Dragon should...

L3Harris Technologies has been awarded a $100 million maximum U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) satellite contract to support U.S. Special Operations Command, DoD announced on Dec. 23.  The contract is...

Maxar Technologies has agreed to sell MDA for $765 million to a consortium of financial sponsors led by Northern Private Capital, Maxar announced on Dec. 30. The company expects to...

Boeing revealed Monday in a news release that CEO Dennis Muilenburg had resigned from his position as CEO and Board director. The board named current Chairman, David Calhoun, as CEO...

Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has designated Mitsubishi Electric as the prime contractor of the new satellite for Innovative Satellite Technology Demonstration-2, Mitsubishi Electric announced on Sunday.  Mitsubishi Electric aims...

Astraea has released EarthAI Notebook, a tool for analyzing geospatial data. The company says that EarthAI Notebook is a fully hosted and managed JuypterLab Notebook designed to analyze raster data...

Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft landed at White Sands Space Harbor in New Mexico on Sunday, bringing an end to NASA‘s Orbital Flight Test, which missed its objective to dock with...

Satellogic, an integrated geospatial analytics company, revealed Thursday that the company has $50 million in funding from new and existing investors. Existing investors, including Tencent and Pitanga, contributed approximately 40%...

Hispasat and the Hispatec Group, which specializes in agricultural software, revealed Friday that they have signed an agreement to promote the use of new technologies in the agricultural sector in...

The government of Luxembourg and Canadian technology company NorthStar Earth and Space signed a letter of intent on Thursday to create a Centre of Excellence for Clean Space in Luxembourg....